Desire Quote by Gautama Buddha

“Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.”

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Pain is the outcome of sin.

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It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

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If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

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Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

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